Winner of Best Foreign Short Film at Chicago’s Reel Shorts Film Festival, Light Opera of Montreal’s first film venture, featuring original songs, deals with prejudice and ageism. Just beginning our tour of festivals around the world, this high quality union film is both funny and dramatic as it delves into the lives of a stolid…
Champion (L”Opera de Montreal) was not quite the winner, baby. Granted, it’s not the complete and untter catastophie of JFK, and it did have some “brief shining moments”, but not a knockout. Premiered and directed by Opera Theatre of St. Louis, James Robinson, they will be doing Terrence Blanchard’s second opera “Fire Shut Up in…
Can you believe I’d never seen Rigoletto? Opéra de Montréal premiered Michael Cavanagh-directed lavish production of this Verdi opera (I LOVED IT) and when i say lavish it’all about the hats and voices and extreme sets. Michael (we met him and chatted) also gave an intimacy to various relationships, very rare in grand opera, it…